Faced with deploying a Macintosh network of dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of computers? Imaging your systems can help. Imaging saves you time and gives your users a consistent experience at every workstation. Sean Colins has been performing system admin tasks like imaging for nearly twenty years. Here, he shares his techniques for creating a master image you can deploy throughout your organization. These include restoring a Mac to a standard configuration, with or without a network; one-to-one deployments; building a portable hard drive that will help you troubleshoot issues on the go; rebooting troubled systems over the network; and adopting a modular workflow that will save you time building masters.Topics include:* Exploring the monolithic and modular imaging methodologies* Working with Fusion Drives and Recovery partitions* Ensuring physical security and installing a firmware password* Choosing source hardware* Installing apps* Building a complete monolithic master for imaging* Deploying apps and accounts in a modular master system* Building a base master* Performing hard-drive-to-hard-drive imaging* Exploring VLANs* Performing network-to-network imaging* Deploying using NetInstall or DeployStudio across a network